Example sentences of "as [v-ing] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the challenge a reshaping information services to meet the needs of the new teams , and outside users as well as developing a strategy for the completely overhaul of our office technology requirements . |
| 2 | Some press reports described the holding of the WEU parallel meeting as establishing a precedent for greater EC influence over the WEU [ see also pp. 38022 ; 38115 ] . |
| 3 | However the original Codasyl proposals were considered by many to have a ‘ physical schema flavour ’ as well as presenting a standard for the logical schema . |
| 4 | Poorer working-class groups do not seem to perceive lawyers as providing a service for them . |
| 5 | Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life . |
| 6 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 7 | They viewed the law as providing a basis for the teacher 's authority to exert discipline within the school , but lamented the fact that the legal limits were derived from a collection of diverse sources , more especially case law or precedent under common law . |
| 8 | The passage which follows has commonly been taken as providing a basis for subsequent conceptions of the role and function of professional English teaching . |
| 9 | This is a felicitous choice , since it serves the dual purpose of examining design at the same time as providing a basis for a definition of art , from which it is distinguished . |
| 10 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 11 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 12 | If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder . |
| 13 | For him the value of representative democracy resides in the fact that it makes possible the selection of effective political leaders , as well as providing a training for them . |
| 14 | As well as providing a means for analysing social process , the rationality of communicative action provides the basis for the understanding of an interpreter of that action : |
| 15 | The duke , in other words , contributed to the royal connection as well as providing a focus for existing royal servants . |
| 16 | We see the project as providing a focus for the work of junior researchers in the University as well as for the research of existing faculty members . |
| 17 | The duke , in other words , contributed to the royal connection as well as providing a focus for existing royal servants . |
| 18 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 19 | The SH2 domain is thought to bind phosphorylated tyrosines in protein substrates , as well as providing a mechanism for auto-regulating the catalytic activity of src proteins ; the SH3 domain may bind cytoskeletal components . |
| 20 | Basically , a general program , supplied with the data layout and validation requirements of the study , guides the keypuncher page by page through the questionnaire form ( or similar document ) in a helpful way so as to facilitate error-free transfer of the information and to give immediate warning of any data anomalies that can be detected as well as providing a mechanism for correcting mistakes . |
| 21 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 22 | The sentencer was entitled to view the appellant 's offences and history as meriting a recommendation for deportation . |
| 23 | However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained . |
| 24 | I ) rather than simply as having a reputation for power . |
| 25 | The first is that we are not so tempted to think of the word ‘ afternoon ’ as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object , as we are to think of ‘ pain' as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object . |
| 26 | The first is that we are not so tempted to think of the word ‘ afternoon ’ as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object , as we are to think of ‘ pain' as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object . |
| 27 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 28 | It is for this reason that we can treat both imperfect competition and the separation of ownership and management as creating a problem for the legitimacy of corporate managerial power . |
| 29 | But constructing a plot for a crime short story can on occasion be as demanding as constructing a plot for a whole crime novel . |
| 30 | It defines the actors as states and sees the main processes in international relations as constituting a search for security . |